.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 236 161
Rank change year-on-year -78 -75 -47
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 325 623 869
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.63% 1.22% 2.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.23% 5.66% 7.72%
Number of salaries quoted 304 449 811
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £74,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -2.44%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,214 11,012 11,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.02% 21.59% 26.01%
Number of salaries quoted 4,806 6,645 9,409
10th Percentile £36,125 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £67,250
Median % change year-on-year - -3.35% -0.37%
75th Percentile £86,250 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,066
% change year-on-year - -0.10% -0.47%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +10 111 £75,000 +7.14% 56
North of England -41 85 £55,000 - 59
South East -29 53 £57,500 +9.52% 82
North West -1 48 £55,000 -4.35% 32
Midlands -34 33 £65,000 +23.81% 41
Yorkshire -43 26 £40,000 -20.00% 15
South West +16 25 £52,500 -22.22% 22
East Midlands -22 24 £69,000 +38.00% 21
East of England -14 12 £60,000 +20.00% 29
North East -3 11 £52,500 +16.67% 12
West Midlands -5 9 £60,000 +14.29% 20
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (1.85%) Confluence
2 5 (1.54%) CMS
2 5 (1.54%) IIS
3 2 (0.62%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.31%) Kentico
4 1 (0.31%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.92%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 217 (66.77%) Azure
2 93 (28.62%) AWS
3 55 (16.92%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (12.31%) Serverless
5 29 (8.92%) GitHub
6 20 (6.15%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (5.85%) Azure Service Bus
8 18 (5.54%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (4.92%) Power Platform
10 15 (4.62%) Amazon S3
11 14 (4.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (4.31%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (4.31%) AWS Step Functions
11 14 (4.31%) Azure Functions
11 14 (4.31%) SaaS
12 13 (4.00%) Amazon EventBridge
13 9 (2.77%) Azure AKS
13 9 (2.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (2.77%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.54%) Internet
2 2 (0.62%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 45 (13.85%) MongoDB
3 41 (12.62%) Azure SQL Database
4 35 (10.77%) NoSQL
5 26 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (5.54%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (5.23%) DynamoDB
8 13 (4.00%) Relational Database
9 12 (3.69%) MySQL
10 8 (2.46%) Power BI
11 6 (1.85%) NonStop SQL
11 6 (1.85%) Redis
11 6 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.92%) MariaDB
14 1 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
14 1 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
14 1 (0.31%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 64 (19.69%) Git
2 14 (4.31%) JIRA
3 10 (3.08%) Visual Studio
4 6 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.85%) NUnit
5 5 (1.54%) GitLab
5 5 (1.54%) MSTest
6 4 (1.23%) Postman
6 4 (1.23%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.92%) JMeter
7 3 (0.92%) Selenium
7 3 (0.92%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.62%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.31%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.31%) NSubstitute
9 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.31%) webpack
General
1 40 (12.31%) Finance
2 37 (11.38%) Social Skills
3 16 (4.92%) Law
4 13 (4.00%) Retail
5 12 (3.69%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.77%) Games
6 9 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.46%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.46%) Legal
8 6 (1.85%) Advertising
8 6 (1.85%) Front Office
9 5 (1.54%) Banking
10 4 (1.23%) Back Office
11 3 (0.92%) Marketing
11 3 (0.92%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.31%) Automotive
13 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 241 (74.15%) Developer
2 133 (40.92%) .NET Developer
3 81 (24.92%) Senior
4 64 (19.69%) Software Developer
5 60 (18.46%) C# Developer
6 56 (17.23%) Senior Developer
7 43 (13.23%) Full-Stack Developer
8 38 (11.69%) Software Engineer
9 29 (8.92%) Lead
10 26 (8.00%) Senior .NET Developer
11 25 (7.69%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 22 (6.77%) C# .NET Developer
12 22 (6.77%) Senior C# Developer
13 20 (6.15%) .NET Software Engineer
14 18 (5.54%) C# Software Developer
15 17 (5.23%) React Developer
16 16 (4.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 15 (4.62%) Lead Developer
18 13 (4.00%) Senior Software Developer
18 13 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 325 (100.00%) .NET
2 130 (40.00%) ASP.NET
3 102 (31.38%) React
4 91 (28.00%) AngularJS
5 86 (26.46%) .NET Framework
6 72 (22.15%) RESTful
7 69 (21.23%) HTML
8 60 (18.46%) CSS
8 60 (18.46%) Entity Framework
9 56 (17.23%) ASP.NET MVC
10 52 (16.00%) ASP.NET Web API
11 50 (15.38%) Blazor
12 39 (12.00%) Vue
13 35 (10.77%) ASP.NET Core
13 35 (10.77%) Node.js
14 31 (9.54%) HTML5
15 22 (6.77%) REST
16 17 (5.23%) CSS3
17 15 (4.62%) LINQ
18 13 (4.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 41 (12.62%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (4.92%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (3.69%) AI Agents
4 10 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.85%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (1.85%) Digital TV
6 6 (1.85%) Fixed Income
6 6 (1.85%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.54%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.23%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.92%) Hedge funds
9 3 (0.92%) Sports Betting
10 2 (0.62%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.62%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.92%) Windows
2 2 (0.62%) Linux
3 1 (0.31%) VMS
3 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (45.85%) Agile
2 126 (38.77%) Full-Stack Development
3 115 (35.38%) Microservices
4 111 (34.15%) CI/CD
5 95 (29.23%) DevOps
6 89 (27.38%) Software Engineering
7 77 (23.69%) MVC
8 51 (15.69%) Containerisation
9 49 (15.08%) Clean Code
10 46 (14.15%) Scrum
11 43 (13.23%) Problem-Solving
12 39 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (11.69%) TDD
14 32 (9.85%) SDLC
15 31 (9.54%) Mentoring
16 30 (9.23%) Infrastructure as Code
17 26 (8.00%) BDD
17 26 (8.00%) Kanban
18 25 (7.69%) OO
18 25 (7.69%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 288 (88.62%) C#
2 133 (40.92%) SQL
3 123 (37.85%) JavaScript
4 66 (20.31%) TypeScript
5 28 (8.62%) Python
6 12 (3.69%) Rust
7 9 (2.77%) T-SQL
8 7 (2.15%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.54%) Java
10 4 (1.23%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.92%) Bash
11 3 (0.92%) Erlang
11 3 (0.92%) Go
12 2 (0.62%) Bicep
12 2 (0.62%) XAML
13 1 (0.31%) C++
13 1 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 38 (11.69%) Degree
2 13 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.38%) AWS Certification
3 11 (3.38%) AWS Certified Developer
4 10 (3.08%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.46%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.54%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.62%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.23%) QA
2 9 (2.77%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.15%) WCAG
4 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.31%) GDPR
4 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 74 (22.77%) Docker
2 2 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 34 (10.46%) Terraform
3 2 (0.62%) Ansible
4 1 (0.31%) Grafana
Vendors
1 102 (31.38%) Microsoft
2 6 (1.85%) Facebook
2 6 (1.85%) YouTube
3 4 (1.23%) Dynatrace
4 3 (0.92%) Databricks
4 3 (0.92%) Google
5 2 (0.62%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (0.62%) ION Trading
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle
6 1 (0.31%) IBM
6 1 (0.31%) IONA
6 1 (0.31%) Okta
6 1 (0.31%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow